Some people say that people are poor and short-minded, and they don't know if this sentence is right. Whether it is because there is no money that makes people have great ambitions, or whether only people with money have great ambitions, there are different theories.

But Yinglong feels that whether there is ambition or not does not lie in wealth and poverty, but in insight and wisdom.

It can be said that people must not be arrogant, but they must have backbone.

Yinglong's family was not wealthy, and the economic conditions were only moderate at that time.

Because of raising four children, although Yingnan and Milan both have salaries, because they spend a lot of energy to raise them, they have not been financially well-off, and their lives are so-so.

It wasn't until Yinglong was in high school that the family bought a color TV, and before that, there was only a black and white TV, and even when Yinglong graduated from high school, there was no refrigerator at home.

Because of the hardship of life, Yinglong has developed the habit of thrift and thrift, he doesn't like to spend money where he doesn't need it, and as for spending a lot of money on treats and buying very expensive things, it is not allowed in his opinion.

He knows the value of money, living in a big family, every child needs to compete for the only little resources, there is no condition that allows him to squander at will, and it is a habit that Yinglong has developed since he was a child to accumulate a small amount of pocket money.

Since he was a child, as long as the family gave him pocket money, Yinglong would hide under the mattress and accumulate little by little, hoping that one day he could buy his favorite small things or comic books to fulfill his wishes.

When I was a child, I was able to run to the bookstore with a few yuan of change and pick up a few comic books, which was Yinglong's favorite thing. It seems that when he handed over the pocket money he was holding to the clerk, and the clerk stamped a blue stamp on the last page of the book, he suddenly felt a sense of ritual in his heart, as if he had fulfilled a long-prayed wish, and felt extremely gratified.

And the snacks on the counters of those food stores are full of temptation, but he is not willing to spend a penny more to buy these delicious snacks to satisfy his appetite.

Although he tried his best to control his desire to consume at that time, he sometimes couldn't help but take out his pocket money to buy a pack of chewing gum or a small bag of olives at the counter of a food store.

In front of the stalls at the school gate that make candy paintings or kneading noodles, Xiao Yinglong always looks at it with curiosity for ten minutes, and then pays a few cents to buy a candy painting or noodle person to satisfy his irrepressible joy.

Although Yinglong is now a young man, and he has accumulated a lot of living expenses from his parents, he considers that he can't rely on his own ability to make money for the time being, and he doesn't have a suitable part-time job, so he tries to suppress all consumption desires, and even eats in the canteen according to the ordinary consumption level, usually just one meat and one vegetable plus one white rice.

He just had to eat his stomach full, and he didn't have to eat deliciously.

Shiwei's family is not rich, her parents are employees of state-owned enterprises, and her life is quite reluctant.

Because Shiwei is diligent in studying, her family is willing to provide her with the help of finishing college.

She is a native of Wuhan, and she came to Bincheng to study because her mother had lived in Bincheng, and she heard that the climate here is good, and the summer is not as hot as Wuhan, and Bincheng University is also a well-known school in neighboring provinces, so she was admitted to this university.

Here, she is fascinated by the university's cherry blossom garden, which she thinks is one of the biggest highlights of the school. although

However, the president believes that the university's library is one of the best cultural facilities in the province, but most of the students think that the cherry blossom garden is the most fascinating sight of the university.

How much living expenses Shiwei's family gave her every month was never revealed to Yinglong. Yinglong was very curious, but Shiwei just kept silent.

He was worried that Shiwei would not eat well and wanted to invite Shiwei to eat together, but Shiwei resolutely refused. She told Yinglong that if she often eats together, she will be embarrassed if she is seen by her classmates.

If the teacher finds out, they will be criticized, and then it will not be easy to be together in the future. But what the deeper reason is, she didn't say.

Shiwei also talked to Yinglong about the situation in her hometown, and said that her mother had lived in Bincheng for a few years, and then went to Wuhan with her grandfather, met her current father, and later had her.

When she was a child, Shiwei's family had a relatively poor life, but she always satisfied her hobby of reading and encouraged her to help her.

So later she chose her favorite Chinese major, which suited her hobby.

Shiwei is very interested in sugar painting and dough kneading, which used to be children's favorite things in her hometown.

When she was a child, she liked to watch the craftsmen of the noodle kneading people perform tricks in the streets and alleys, and the characters in "Journey to the West" were in the hands of simplely dressed foreigners, using kneaded colored glutinous rice flour, pinched three or two times, and became a lively Sun Monkey, Zhu Bajie and Sha Monk.

This made her stunned, but the young Shiwei was reluctant to spend money to buy a powerful Monkey King.

Until her birthday, her father fulfilled her little wish, and at the stall by the park, he asked the craftsman to pinch a Monkey King holding a golden hoop stick on the spot and buy it for Xiao Shiwei.

Xiao Shiwei got the Monkey King face on her birthday and was happy all day.

When she put Sun Wukong at the head of the bed, she liked it for a week, but then somehow, this noodle man was half gnawed by the hateful rat without everyone noticing, which made Xiao Shiwei sad for several days, and finally reluctantly put the remaining half of the noodle man into a box, and since then she has collected it and never opened it again.

Seeing Xiao Shiwei's sad appearance, her mother asked her father to buy another one for her, but Xiao Shiwei always refused, insisting that she didn't want a second Monkey King, because Sun Wukong only had one, and the most important thing to do was to drive out the rats in the house.

Later, her parents tried a lot of ways to drive away the rats, and although it took a lot of effort, the rats went and came again like hateful cockroaches.

Although the number of rats in the house is very small, they can still be seen occasionally flashing by.

Shiwei has since understood why the "four evils" should be eliminated. Because as long as there is a soil where the "four pests" breed, there will be "pests", which will bring some troubles and sorrows to everyone.

The Monkey King face-to-face man left a deep impression in Shiwei's mind.

After she was in middle school, whenever she saw a noodle kneader's stall on the street, a group of children would gather around, and she would come up with great interest to admire it and reminisce about her childhood wishes.

Sometimes Shiwei will buy a monkey to take home, but after a long time, although there are no hateful mice to bite, it will soon fall a layer of dust, so that the vivid Monkey King will change color, and there is no such vivid appearance as in the past.

She also gradually understood that although some things in her memories are precious and often make people melancholy, when she re-experiences them many years later, it will inevitably be disappointing, so that she will lose the vivid image and aura of her memory.

Therefore, the people and things preserved in the memory were so reluctant at the time, but when they were pursued more than ten years later, they were no longer the original taste, as if they were covered with a layer of dust, and they no longer seemed glamorous.

It's not that they're no longer the way they were, it's that time has made them go through the years and no longer have the same taste.

But in people's memory, it is still in its shelf life, although many years have passed.

The ups and downs of life add a lot of aftertaste to these fragments of memories, so that when people look back to pursue something, it is the unfulfilled wishes and unfulfilled promises left in the memory that make them dissatisfied.

But once you experience it again in life, you will feel that it is nothing more than that, and you will even think that the original idea is not realistic.

Therefore, while Shiwei has good wishes for the future, she also wants to grasp her true self in the present and respect her own wishes and opinions.

She doesn't want to suppress her thoughts too much and save her memories for the future, waiting until the future to experience them in her memories.

For Yinglong, she wants to grasp it well, and she doesn't want to just leave him with memories, just like the noodle Monkey King.

Yinglong is clear about Shiwei's thoughts but not all of them are understood, Shiwei won't talk to him too much, Yinglong can only experience it carefully and explore her true thoughts from Shiwei's words.

But the two of them have the same view of cherishing the present, life is very short, if you always choose to give up and leave your feelings to memories, then you can only look for those things that touch your heartstrings in your memories in this life.

Many things in reality are always boring and chaotic, but those touching memories on this gravel beach, as long as you are careful to find and be willing to bend down to pick up, there is no shortage of things that can be found in this little bit of brilliance.

For the understanding of life, Yinglong and Shiwei often talk about some ideas.

They can't say profound opinions, but they know how to cherish them, which is an understanding of life, but it is what they have in common.

They don't need to live in luxury, as long as they are down-to-earth and cherish everything, which is the most rational idea.

Not only Shiwei thinks so, but so does Yinglong.

They were glad to have met in this small town and had similar ideas.

When Yinglong asked about Shiwei's past, Shiwei was always reluctant to say too much, but Yinglong was very curious, so he always wanted to arouse Shiwei's interest and let her say more.

But Shiwei feels that the past is just a memory, and if she talks too much, it is just the past, and it is impossible to go back to the past.

Yinglong was unwilling, he wanted to know more about Shiwei, but Shiwei didn't want to talk about those things, Yinglong always felt a little regretful, and when he saw Shiwei's somewhat reserved expression, he swallowed the topic back.

Shiwei also asked about Yinglong's past, Yinglong is not like Shiwei, he is happy to talk about the past, but when he talks about his childhood, he wants to stop talking, and he doesn't want to talk about his life as a child, even if he does, he only talks about his past in Bencheng.

After all, the experience before returning to Bencheng was just a past in his heart that he didn't want to unveil the veil, and he would rather bury it in his heart and not be known by others, so that this past was gradually covered with a layer of dust.

I don't know, Shiwei is very interested in his past, but Yinglong only wants to talk about those things he is willing to mention, and always wants to hide some of the past, which makes Shiwei a little puzzled.

Some memories are even a scar in Yinglong's heart, he doesn't want others to uncover them, he would rather be covered with a veil than show them in front of others, and as for Shiwei, he is even more reluctant to mention it.